The US Doesn’t Have an Immigration Problem—It Has a Refugee Problem

Quartz: “Trump’s fixation with blocking illegal immigration from Mexico, which has plummeted in recent years, obfuscates the problem… The number of immigrants claiming fear of persecution or torture in their home countries is on the rise, and so are the findings that those claims are credible.”

“It doesn’t help that the US has failed to devote enough resources to deal with the spike in asylum requests made with US Citizen and Immigration Services, generating a bulging bottleneck.”